In My Empty House & Bricolage Disco

ST PAUL St Gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions from Sydney based artists Ruark Lewis, Loma Bridge and Wade Marynowsky, exploring aspects and acts of accumulation and shedding, cluttering and decluttering.

Opening: Thursday, November 25, 2010, 5:30 pm

Artist Talk:      Wade Marynowsky, Thursday, November 25, 4:30 pm (before the opening)
Performance:  Ruark Lewis, Epigrams and Defiant Dialogues, Thursday, November 25, (during the opening)
Artist Talk:      Ruark Lewis with Loma Bridge, Saturday, November 27, 12:30 pm, Gallery One

Gallery One will feature Ruark Lewis’ work In My Empty House made with experimental film maker Loma Bridge. This installation performs a dual examination of the home environment of his friends Alex and Vivienne Kondos, and their lifelong academic engagement with Nepalese and Hindu culture. Using film, photography, textual transcriptions and sound In My Empty House explores multiple ideas of existence and the nature of households. Ruark Lewis will perform from - Epigrams and Defiant Dialogues, with a newly commissioned sound design by Sydney composer Rik Rue at the opening event.

Across the foyer in Gallery Two, Wade Marynowsky’s work Bricolage Disco is activated by an opposing movement towards accumulation. Collecting obsolete technology over his month long residency period, Marynowsky has combined these objects to create choreography of machines, sound and light, activated through the intervention of digital technology. At 4:30 pm on November 25, Marynowsky will talk about his art practice and the work Bricolage Disco at ST PAUL St as well as sharing inside technical information on how he used Arduino, relay switches and MAX/msp.

In My Empty House and Bricolage Disco are supported by the NSW Government, Australia through Arts NSW. In My Empty House has received additional support from the Janet Holmes a Court Artists' Grant, a NAVA initiative, made possible through the generous sponsorship of Mrs Janet Holmes a Court and through the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts. Bricolage Disco is the outcome of a artist residency jointly funded by ST PAUL St and CoLab.